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- Nov 07, 2020
Back Quotes
Words about returning, backing up, and standing behind what matters.
This collection gathers lines built around the small word 'back' in surprisingly different contexts: political leverage handed back to Congress, actors returning from a shoot, and even a beauty routine built on backing up one step with another. See more reflective lines in our Always collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't realise how devastating my behavior could be - looking back, I'm very embarrassed. I just buckled under the anxiety.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've always had to do to survive.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we're forty percent outside that zone.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about 'Hold Back The River' that I like is that it's a good starting place, and it was the perfect first single.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've got your Justins who have all the back flipping dancers and stuff, and then you've got Lemar, and he totally moves you without having to do all of that, and he's gorgeous.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, Lloyd Alexander's tales of Prydain were enough to make me come back and visit again and again, and each time, I laughed and I wept. Each time. No exceptions.
- Grabbed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first got into cricket by watching Test matches on TV and listening to overseas tours on the radio. The sport really grabbed me - and it didn't matter that England weren't hugely successful back then.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.
- Cathedrals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got traded in the middle of an injury - my ankle injury - so in '09, I came back and just kind of flukishly had some success. I was far, far from healthy. I came back in 2010 still nursing that ankle injury. Yeah, it was a rough, rough go. My first few years in Chicago were not much fun.
- Nov 07, 2020